Drupal user/admin question

[Juan]

El 10/09/11 01:12, Patton Echols escribió:
> at some point I will need to join a drupal group if I pursue it as a 
> CMS. Hope I can get some insights as i attempt some test work.
>
> First is a really simple noob question.
>
> The documentation says that installation starts by unzipping the 
> tarball into the web root of the server (Along with setting up a DB 
> and other things). There are also comments about, "if there will be 
> other installations" that I didn't quite follow.
>
> Question: Instead of the web root, I'd like to drop into 
> webroot/drulaptest/ and point browsers there. I understand I could 
> "just try it" ™ but I don't want to break something else. Do any of 
> the drupal administrators / users on the list know if this would be a 
> problem?
>
> Thanks for thoughts
>
>
It is OK to set it on any directoty of your web server. You only need to 
make sure any reference go to the correct folder in the config.